Job 24:10

Easy-to-Read Version

They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without clothing, they wander about naked.They carry sheaves but go hungry.

Hebrew Names Version
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

King James Version
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

English Standard Version
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

New Century Version
So the poor go around naked without any clothes; they carry bundles of grain but still go hungry;

New English Translation
They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

Amplified Bible
"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

New American Standard Bible
"The poor move about naked without clothing, And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.

World English Bible
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

Legacy Standard Bible
Those poor ones walk about naked without clothing,And hungry ones carry the sheaves.

Berean Standard Bible
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Contemporary English Version
Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.

Complete Jewish Bible
so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];

Darby Translation
These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

George Lamsa Translation
They cause them to go naked without clothing, and they take away bread from the hungry,

Good News Translation
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.

Lexham English Bible
They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Literal Translation
They make them go without clothing, and are hungry; they lift up the sheaves.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge, and yet the hungrie beare the sheeues.

American Standard Version
So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Bible in Basic English
Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

King James Version (1611)
They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.

English Revised Version
So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei token awey eeris of corn fro nakid men, and goynge with out cloth, and fro hungry men.

Update Bible Version
[So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Webster's Bible Translation
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

New King James Version
They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

New Living Translation
The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.

New Life Bible
They make the poor go about without clothing, making them carry loads of cut grain while they are hungry.

New Revised Standard
They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;

Douay-Rheims Bible
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Revised Standard Version
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Young's Literal Translation
Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Why doesn't God All-Powerful set times for judgment? And why can't his followers know when those times will be? ² "People move property markers to get more of their neighbor's land. People steal flocks and lead them to other grasslands. ³ They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow's cow until she pays what she owes them. They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. ⁴ They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. ⁵ "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. ⁶ They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. ⁷ They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. ⁸ They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry. They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink. In the city you can hear the sad sounds of dying people. Those who are hurt cry out for help, but God does not listen. "Some people rebel against the light. They don't know what God wants. They don't live the way he wants. A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief. A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, ‘No one will see me,' but still, he covers his face. When it is dark, evil people go out and break into houses. But during the day they lock themselves in their homes to avoid the light. The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness. " You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards. As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows, so the grave takes away those who have sinned. Their own mothers will forget them. Only the worms will want them. No one will remember them. They will be broken like a rotten stick! These evil people hurt women who have no children to protect them, and they refuse to help widows. By his power God removes the powerful. Even if they have a high position, they cannot be sure of their lives. They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live. They might be successful for a while, but then they will be gone. Like everyone else, they will be cut down like grain.' "I swear these things are true! Who can prove that I lied? Who can show that I am wrong?" ⁹ They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. ¹⁰ They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they take away: Deuteronomy 24:19, Amos 2:7, Amos 2:8, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:14 - General Job 22:6 - stripped Job 24:7 - the naked Jeremiah 22:13 - buildeth Ephesians 6:9 - ye James 5:4 - the hire

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his family and left Ur of Babylonia. They planned to travel to Canaan. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (Abram's wife). They traveled to the city of Haran and decided to stay there.

Genesis 24:2
Abraham's oldest servant was in charge of everything he owned. Abraham called that servant to him and said, "Put your hand under my leg.

Genesis 24:4
Go back to my country, to my own people, to find a wife for my son Isaac. Bring her here to him."

Genesis 24:5
The servant said to him, "Maybe this woman will not want to come back with me to this land. If that happens, should I take your son with me to your homeland?"

Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "No, don't take my son to that place.

Genesis 24:8
If the girl refuses to come with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not take my son back to that place."

Genesis 24:9
So the servant put his hand under his master's leg and made the promise.

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city.

Genesis 24:22
After the camels finished drinking, he gave Rebekah a gold ring that weighed 1/4 ounce. He also gave her two gold arm bracelets that weighed 2 ounces each.

Genesis 24:23
The servant asked, "Who is your father? And is there a place in your father's house for me and my men to sleep?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They cause [him] to go naked without clothing,.... Having taken his raiment from him for a pledge, or refusing to give him his wages for his work, whereby he might procure clothes to cover him, but that being withheld, is obliged to go naked, or next to it:

and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "ears of corn", such as the poor man plucked as he walked through a corn field, in order to rub them in his hand, and eat of, as the disciples of Christ, with which the Pharisees were offended, Luke 6:1; and which, according to a law in Israel, was allowed to be done, Deuteronomy 23:25; but now so severe were these wicked men to these poor persons, that they took away from them such ears of corn: but it is more likely that this sheaf was what the poor had gleaned, and what they had been picking up ear by ear, and had bound up into a sheaf, in order to carry home and beat it out, and then grind the corn of it, and make a loaf of it to satisfy their hunger; but so cruel and hardhearted were these men, that they took it away from them, which they had been all, or the greatest part of the day, picking up; unless it can be thought there was a custom in Job's country, which was afterwards a law among the Jews, that if a sheaf was forgotten by the owner, and left in the field when he gathered in his corn, he was not to go back for it, and fetch it, but leave it to the poor, Deuteronomy 24:19; but these men would not suffer them to have it, but took it away from them; or the words may be rendered, as they are by some, "the hungry carry the sheaf" p that is, of their rich oppressive masters, who having reaped their fields for them, and bound up the corn in sheaves, carry it home for them; and yet they do not so much as give them food for their labour, or wages to purchase food to satisfy their; hunger, and so dealt with them worse than the oxen were, according to the Jewish law, which were not to be muzzled when they trod out the corn, but might eat of it, Deuteronomy 25:4.

p ורעבים נשאו עמר "et famelici gestant manipulum", Tigurine version, Mercerus; so Schultens, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they take away the sheaf from the hungry - The meaning of this is, that the hungry are compelled to bear the sheaf for the rich without being allowed to satisfy their hunger from it. Moses commanded that even the ox should not be muzzled that trod out the grain Deuteronomy 25:4; but here was more aggravated cruelty than that would be, in compelling men to bear the sheaf of the harvest without allowing them even to satisfy their hunger. This is an instance of the cruelty which Job says was actually practiced on the earth, and yet God did not interpose to punish it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:10. They cause him to go naked — These cruel, hard-hearted oppressors seize the cloth made for the family wear, or the wool and flax out of which such clothes should be made.

And they take away the sheaf — Seize the grain as soon as it is reaped, that they may pay themselves the exorbitant rent at which they have leased out their land: and thus the sheaf - the thraves and ricks, by which they should have been supported, are taken away from the hungry.